From the monthly archives:
The Associated Press reported July 17, that two West Texas nurses had been indicted with felony charges because they filed an anonymous complaint with the Texas Medical Board. Their complaint letter asserted that a physician at the Winkler County Memorial Hospital and Health Clinic encouraged patients to buy herbal medicines and that the physician also [...]
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Ordering tests that are considered medically unnecessary is not defensive medicine but simply thoughtless medicine. I am a lawyer of 35 years experience in representing patients and their families who are victims of medical malpractice. My clients are harmed by thoughtlessness and failed communications and not because an unneeded medical test was not performed. The [...]
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In an opinion piece published in the June issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Dwight J. Rouse from the Center of Women’s Reproductive Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, suggests that a thousand fewer children each year would suffer from handicapping cerebral palsy if magnesium sulfate were uniformly administered [...]
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In a previous post I briefly discussed how communication failures in the transmission of test results are common. Many people think that widespread use of electronic medical records systems throughout all of our health systems will improve medical care. You cannot improve a physician’s standard of practice simply by altering the means by which records [...]
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The Archives of Internal Medicine, June 22, 2009, published results of a retrospective medical record review involving nineteen community based and four academic medical center primary care practices. The researchers were intent upon examining how frequently patients were not informed of clinically significant abnormal outpatient test results. The researcher’s conclusion was that it is common [...]
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